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Rosie the Riveter in Long Beach (Postcards of America: California) | 
 enlarge | Author: Gerrie Schipske
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 1536762
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 128
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 9 x 6.4 x 0.3
ISBN: 0738558141
Dewey Decimal Number: 331.40979493
EAN: 9780738558141
ASIN: 0738558141
Publication Date: April 30, 2008
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Product Description
During World War II, an unprecedented number of women
took jobs at aircraft plants, shipyards, munitions factories, and other concerns across the nation to produce material essential to winning the war. Affectionately and collectively called Rosie the Riveter after a popular 1943 song, thousands of these women came to the U.S. Armyfinanced Douglas Aircraft Plant in Long Beach, the largest wartime plane manufacturer, to help produce an astonishing number of the aircraft used in the war. They riveted,
welded, assembled, and installed, doing man-sized jobs, making attack bombers, other war birds, and cargo transports. They trained at Long Beach City Schools and worked 8- and 10-hour shifts in a windowless, bomb-proof plant. Their children attended Long Beach Day Nursery, and their households ran on rations and victory gardens. When the men came home after the war ended, most of these resilient women lost their jobs.
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